How would you like to be in the Health Food Restaurant business in Jerusalem?

Can't see images? Click here... Yehuda Lave, Spiritual Advisor and Counselor How To Not Cause Suffering and the Health Food Restaurant The Torah forbids us to harm or cause suffering to others. Even from a selfish perspective, we should be careful not to harm others, since we will ultimately suffer because of it. Some guidelines: * Refrain from insulting others. * Refrain from talking negatively about others, unless it is necessary for a practical and constructive purpose. * Refrain from lying to others. * Refrain from deceiving others in financial matters. * Refrain from causing others pain or unpleasantness through actions or words. * Refrain from causing others financial losses. The money of others should be as dear as our own. Speaking of financial losses and gains, G-d presented me with an interesting oportunity yesterday. I have a new acquaintance who has run a successful Health Food Restaurant in Jerusalem for over 20 years and now wants to retire. The Restaurant business is hard, but interesting and gives a great opportunity to work with the public and do mitzvahs right in the center of Jerusalem. I am temped to help him, but I also already busy, so where would I find the time?  If any of my readers are looking for a good pernusah (making a living) and have the time for a fun and interesting way to  make money while doing mitzvahs (feeding others is always a great mitzvah, even if they pay for it), please let me know right away as a deal has to be made soon. Love Yehuda Lave The Beatles Live early rare and great sound The Hidden Jewish Treasures in Saddam Hussein's Basement At one time Baghdad, Iraq had a thriving Jewish population. Over the decades, anti-semitism drove the Jewish population out – often through violent dispossession. The synagogue in Baghdad became home to many artifacts of immeasurable historical value belonging to Jewish People who fled. In 1985, Saddam Hussein looted them. In 2003, the US military discovered them in a flooded basement of the Secret Police and brought them to the United States for restoration. Virtually no Jewish people remain in Iraq and the government is still officially at war with Israel. These archives are scheduled for return, not to the Jewish People who owned them, but to the nation that stole them. This is wrong historically, legally, and morally. We are asking you to help us write to your representatives in the US government to reverse this decision and return these valuable Jewish treasures to their rightful owners and not the government of Iraq. LETTER TO THE WORLD  Rabbi Meir Kahane New York Times 1988 - Dear World, It appears that you are hard to please. I understand that you are upset over us here in Israel. Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry and outraged. Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset over us. Today, it is the brutal repression of the Palestinians; yesterday, it was Lebanon; before that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Baghdad and the Yom Kippur War campaign. It appears that Jews who triumph, and who therefore, live, upset you most extraordinarily. Of course, Dear World, long before there was an Israel, we the Jewish people upset you. We upset a German people, who elected a Hitler and we upset an Austrian people, who cheered his entry into Vienna and we upset a whole slew of Slavic nations - Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Hungarians, Romanians. And we go back a long, long way in the history of world upset. We upset the Cossacks of Chmielnicki, who massacred tens of thousands of us in 1648-49; we upset the Crusaders, who on their way to liberate the Holy Land, were so upset at Jews that they slaughtered untold numbers of us. We upset, for centuries, a Roman Catholic Church that did its best to define our relationship through Inquisitions. And we upset the arch-enemy of the church, Martin Luther, who in his call to burn the synagogues and the Jews within them, showed an admirable Christian ecumenical spirit. It is because we became so upset over upsetting you, Dear World, that we decided to leave you - in a manner of speaking - and establish a Jewish State. The reasoning was that living in close contact with you, as resident-strangers in the various countries that comprise you, we upset you, irritate you and disturb you. What better notion, then, than to leave you and thus love you - and have you love us? And so we decided to come home, to the same homeland from which we were driven out 1,900 years earlier by a Roman world that, apparently, we also upset. Alas, Dear World, it appears that you are hard to please. Having left you and your Pogroms and Inquisitions and Crusades and Holocausts, having taken our leave of the general world to live alone in our own little state, we continue to upset you. You are upset that we repress the Palestinians. You are deeply angered over the fact that we do not give up the lands of 1967, which are clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Moscow is upset and Washington is upset. The Arabs are upset and the gentle Egyptian moderates are upset. Well, Dear World, consider the reaction of a normal Jew from Israel. In 1920, 1921 and 1929, there were no territories of 1967 to impede peace between Jews and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset anybody. Nevertheless, the same oppressed and repressed Palestinians slaughtered hundreds of Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed and Hebron. Indeed, 67 Jews were slaughtered one day in Hebron in 1929. Dear World, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre 67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli aggression in 1967? And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children slaughtered in Arab riots in 1936-39? Was it because of Arab upset over 1967? And when you, World, proposed a U.N. Partition Plan in 1947 that would have created a Palestinian State alongside a tiny Israel and the Arabs cried and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews - was that upset stomach caused by the aggression of 1967? And, by the way, dear world, why did we not hear your cry of upset then? The Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who - when they had all the territories they now demand be given them for their state - attempted to drive the Jewish State into the sea. The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of "idbah-al-yahud" - "Slaughter the Jews!" that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then. The same people, the same dream - destroy Israel. What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today - but we should not "repress" them. Dear World, you stood by the Holocaust and you stood by in 1948 as seven states launched a war that the Arab League proudly compared to the Mongol massacres. You stood by in 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild mobs in every Arab capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into the sea. And you would stand by tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction. And since we know that the Arabs - Palestinians - daily dream of that extinction, we will do everything possible to remain alive in our own land. If that bothers you, Dear World, well - think of how many times in the past you bothered us. President Saddam Hussein houses See you tomorrow and Shabbat Shalom Love Yehuda Lave Rabbi Yehuda Lave Your mailing address Contact Phone Website LIKE TWEET FORWARD You received this email because you signed up on our website or made purchase from us. Unsubscribe